Why "Yellowknife" called "Yellowknife"

王朝知道·作者佚名  2009-08-14
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最好是英语的。

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Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories, Canada, on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, at the mouth of the Yellowknife River. It is the largest city in the Northwest Territories and a mining, supply, and transportation center, with an airport, radio and meteorological stations, a post of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and regional offices of other federal agencies. The city has grown with increased mining and with the assumption of functions previously administered by the federal government. The formation of Nunavut, a new territory, will probably hurt Yellowknife economically by reducing the number of government jobs in the city. The town was founded (1935) after the discovery of rich deposits of gold. Another mine was discovered in 1944 and a new townsite was established the next year.

Yellowknife, named after a Native American tribe, became capital of the Northwest Territories in 1967.

Yellowknives

The Yellowknives, Yellow Knives, Copper Indians, Red Knives or T'atsaot'ine are one of the five main groups of the Dene First Nation that live in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The name, which is also the source for the later community of Yellowknife, derives from the colour of the tools made from local copper deposits.

They are now absorbed into the Chipewyan people. Previously they lived north of the Great Slave Lake.

source: Wikipedia

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